The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1887-03-05
SHERHlN FOR PRESlDENT
TO OPEN HIS CAMPAIGN AT
NASHVILLE.
His Assistants In the Canvass OF the
Seath to he His Treasury
Employees.

NhW IOhht w hTCu ts-Ind W dou-
ington correspondent Of the Star tele-
graphs tina Senator Sherman is tying
to Disguise the real object Of his s ,utt-
ern trip by giving ID the appearance
o. q cial aunt. He will leave in
company with Senators Henderson,
Palmer, Ransom and Butler, and 70
i;-t ID Tampa, Fla, and thence to
cuba. ReturoIng TO these shoies, the
party will break up, Mr.. Sherman and
his two Republican friends going t.
Nashville, where the Ohio Senator is
to deliver a political address. 1t is a
some What roundabout way to reach
the Tennessee capitol, but the Senator
10 playing for great stakes and does
MT care to aDptar as boldly taking the
field 30 eslly in tbs day.
Tbs Sherman Campaign in the South
is to be conducted IN the ma BY the
men who served under him in one ca
pacity or another while he was Secre-
tsry Of the Treasury. They orsaniz ID
his campsign in 1881, and are fami lar
with the territory ard the require
ments OF the occasion. They are al
ready bosstiDg OF their leaders
streDg b. They are claiming Ken
lucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, Ala
bama and Georgia, and Senator Ma
hone and John S Wise are pledgDg
Virginia ADD North Carolina to the
co umn. The colored people in the
old slave States are uniI, it is asserted,
for Sherman.
The 81 ustion north of Mason and
Dixon's line, II not go fl ,ttering, is full
OF hope. In Indiana, where Blaine in
jured himself by his letter Abandoning
hs suit against the Ind spolie SEMI.
mel, ShIr nan In second now to Har.
Iison. In New York, while it
ia conceded that Blaine has
the call on the Irish vot, Sherman
ia strongest with the Gerna q. Pro-
tsstants and all OF the .Mugwumps
prefer him to any other man likely to
be put forward by the party. The
most comp ete understanding is said
to exist between Edmunds and Sher-
man, by which the latter is assured OF
substantial recognition in New Fog
land. Massae hu cts, ne or a Blame
stronghold, Is being drummed for
Sherman, and Vermont, Mr.. Ed
munds's own State, is to be swung 10
convention by him tor the man of his
choice.
1t is thought highly probable, in
deed, that Mr. Edmunds will lead the
delegation from his Slate to the next
Republican National Convention.
Gen. Hawley is to take good c,re of
Connecticut, with the highly hattsr-
ing prospect of being second on the
ticket should Sherman be nominated.
The movement in the West has been
insugura'ed by the selection Of Mr..
Iogalls to preside over the Senate.
Mr.. Sherman was largely instrumental
n bringing about that choice, and the
accomplished Senator from Kaneas is
said to be deeply sensible of the fact.
1t Is intimsted that he, too, will be
member of the next National O)nven-
ton Of his party, and That he will
probably bs choten to present the
name of Mr.. Sherman as a candidate
for the Presidency. No man alive
could do 1t more handsomely or effect
lively, and the West would be likely to
respond to bis eloquence.
The opening gun is to be fred in
Tennessee for the reason thst the re-.
cent betrayal Of the rarty by Gov.
Bob Taylor has al ed the Republicans
OF thst state WIKI a certain boast ul
col Fl fence in their ability to carry It,.
Gov. Taylor was elected on a platform
which declared distinctly against the
Blair bill, aud yet one of his first acts
after being indicted into office was to
declare 10 favor of Federal aid to edu-
cstion and put the common schools Cf
the State under the directors OF one
ri the most rabid of The Blair bill
Democrats. He Is being vgC rously e.
buked for his apos,acy by the Demo-
cratic press Of the State, and the gem
eral opinion is that his career as a
Democrat is ended.
The Republicans, there fore, in the
hope OF prI fiiUg by the dissension
while it is fresh AID rancorous, have
arranged to introduce one of their
ablest men on the scene, and by a
specious and ju ilcious presentation of
the question uy and fleet perma-
nent ALLIANCES with the apostate and his
adh, rAEts.